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"Data for 700M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale in Cyber-Underground"After 500 million LinkedIn enthusiasts were affected in a data-scraping incident in April, it's happened again. Researchers at Privacy Sharks discovered a new posting with 700 million LinkedIn records on a popular hacker forum called RaidForums. The… -
"Major Threats to Cloud Infrastructure Security Include a Lack of Visibility And Inadequate IAM"Researchers at Ermetic conducted a new study where they surveyed 200 CISOs and other security decision-makers and found that nearly 60% of the participants consider lack of visibility as well as inadequate identity and access management a significant…
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"New Two-Step Algorithm Could Prove 'a Paradigm Shift' in Cloud Data Confidentiality"Although cloud computing provides fast, easy-to-use computing and inexpensive data storage services, the cloud environment does come with data confidentiality risks. Cryptography is a mathematical technique that strengthens cloud computing security by…
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"Nobelium Attackers Compromised Microsoft Customer Support Agent"The attackers behind the SolarWinds hack carried out another malicious campaign against government agencies and IT companies. They compromised a machine belonging to a Microsoft customer support agent who had access to customer data. The attack campaign…
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"Cobalt Strike Usage Explodes Among Cybercrooks"Researchers from Proofpoint have found that the use of Cobalt Strike by cybercriminals is increasing. The researchers stated that the tool has now "gone fully mainstream in the crimeware world." The researchers have tracked a year-over-year increase of…
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"Danger Caused by Subdomains"A team of researchers from the Security & Privacy Research Unit at TU Wien and Ca' Foscari University discovered a new security vulnerability associated with subdomains. Large websites often consist of several subdomains (e.g., "sub.example.com"…
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"Mercedes Benz Data Leak Includes Card and Social Security Details"Mercedes Benz has released details of a data breach affecting customers and prospective buyers in the US. The luxury carmaker stated that a vendor had informed them on June 11th that information belonging to customers was inadvertently made accessible on…
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"Hackers Use Cracked Games To Make Crypto-Millions"Researchers at the antivirus firm Avast discovered malware in cracked versions of popular games, such as The Sims 4, Grand Theft Auto V, Far Cry 5, and more, that have been distributed for free on forums. Malware called Crackonosh was found in these…
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"Bill Would Create Cyber Workforce Training Programs at CISA and VA"The recently introduced bipartisan Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Expansion Act aims to strengthen government cybersecurity by improving the cyber workforce through the creation of two new cybersecurity training programs. These programs include an…
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"USB Threats Could Critically Impact Business Operations"According to a report released by Honeywell, USB threats that can severely impact business operations increased significantly during a disruptive year when the usage of removable media and network connectivity also grew. Researchers found that 37% of…
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"Four States Propose Laws to Ban Ransomware Payments"Following the ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline and top meat producer JBS, some government officials have called on Congress and the administration to ban organizations from making ransom payments to threat actors. The goal of such a ban would be…
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"Data of 500K Patients Accessed, Stolen After Eye Clinic Ransomware Attack"The Iowa-based Wolfe Eye Clinic was hit with a ransomware attack earlier this year in February, resulting in the access and possible theft of data belonging to 500,000 patients. An unauthorized individual was observed attempting to access the…